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Savior Or Failure? What The Critics Are Saying About ‘Superman’


Superman is currently on 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Vanity Fair praises some of the film’s performances, particularly Nicholas Hoult, who the magazine said “convincingly renders a petulant bully whose immense wealth and influence have, he presumes, given him power over his insecurities and inadequacies.” “There’s a handful of callbacks to the Reeve era, including the title font, as well as a belaboured running gag about office gofer Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo) being irresistible to women.” Willmore wrote: “Instead of another origin story, it gives us sights we haven’t yet seen — like Krypto bounding through the air after one of the many monkeys enlisted to rage-tweet from a Luthor-created pocket dimension.

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